Leon Ransmeier

, Ransmeier Inc.

American, b. 1979

Leon Ransmeier was born in New York in 1979. In 2001, he graduated with a B.F.A. in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.

In 2004, Ransmeier founded Ransmeier Inc., an industrial design practice based in New York City. In 2007, he co-founded the design firm DBA with partners Erik Wysocan and Patrick Sarkissian, where he worked as creative director of design for three years.

Throughout his career, Ransmeier has worked on design collaborations with Droog, Established & Sons, and Herman Miller. His work is included in the permanent collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum. His work was featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s 2006 National Design Triennial, Design Life Now, and in the 2010 National Design Triennial, “Why Design Now?.”

The Corning Museum of Glass will once again partner with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to present GlassLab this summer. On weekends, from June 30 to July 29 on New York’s Governors Island,... more